Unexpected Indian Food!! 🇮🇳 Pandi Curry in Coorg!

COORG, INDIA - Today we’re in the mountains of Karnataka, in Coorg, India to make and eat Pandi Curry, an insanely delicious pork curry and one of the signature dishes of the Kodava people!

Thank you to my great friend Ebbin: @FoodNTravel
Shelly and Subbu for cooking: @thewishpilot
Joel: @JoelsTastyRide

Coorg is a district in the Karnataka state of South India, located in the mountains between Mangalore and Mysore. It’s a beautiful region, home to the Kodava people, and known for their cultural heritage, for growing coffee, and for their incredible food that’s unlike anywhere else.

Today we had the privilege of being with Shelly and Subbu who will be cooking for us some of the local Kodava cuisine. The first dish is pandi curry, an incredible pork curry that’s marinated and cooked with huge amounts of special roasted masala spices, curry leaves, sawtooth coriander, and the one of a kind; garcinia syrup, which is one of the signature flavors of the Kodava people. You eat pandi curry along with rice balls, and the combination is something truly magical. We also enjoyed black pepper chicken, jackfruit, and a few other side dishes. For dinner we had an equally magnificent local meal, with pork fry and unbelievable flavor profiles.

This was a day of Indian food that is lesser recognized, in fact the flavors were totally different from any other meal in India I’ve ever had!

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[roselynnwood]

This video was just so wholesome. Cooking with friends on private lands with beautiful nature, drinking homemade vine, enjoying, partying, happiness, conversations . It's a whole vibe

[theUnArtist]

I am from northeast India...did college in Karnataka.
I've had many pork dishes. But the one i always remember was during those college days...when a friend from Coorg brought a home made Coorgi pork fry made by his mother.

[globalcitizenn]

The host Shelly is wearing the saree in the traditional style of Coorg. Looks beautiful. Coorg has elegant people. Coffee flowers are so fragrant they perfume the air.. but they don’t smell like coffee, they smell like jasmine

[lorad.]

Finally someone who don't stay in Mumbai when visiting India.
Thank you to show the world what real tourism should be.

[nishantnayak]

Close your eyes and listen to the sounds made by the animals, birds and insects in the background, I've been to coorg and it's really like this. It's like you are in deep tropical rain forest.

[naviu]

India is so much so diverse that in one state Karnataka itself you will find 100+ different types of cuisines and food preparation styles. For example, Coorg, Mangaluru, Havyaka, Konkani, North Karnataka etc. You will be amazed to see the diversity of people, culture and food changing every 100km. That’s why Karnataka is known as one state many worlds.

[devilman-gf]

Man, Indians r so passionate about their food, it's obvious when u have a cuisine this good.

[twinklesingh]

Beautifully said, Mark! India is not just about curries, naan, butter chicken, idli, dosa, dal makhani, tandoori chicken and biryani, its a lot more. In India, every after 100km, the language and food changes. I'm so blessed to be born in India❤

[stratusredklowd]

It can't be denied that India has contributed so much for the culinary universe with all the spices and the numerous ingredients and ways to prepare food.

[bharath]

greetings from wayanad district, kerala. your next door neighbours kodavas, always knew we shared common things, my maternal grandma used to make pandi curry with wild boars, sadly shes no more and really miss that flavor.

[adityapandit]

Yes Mark - Indian cuisine is much much more than just dal, roti and butter chicken. You will not find such diversity anywhere in the world. Keep on exploring India Mark.

[abhishekghosh]

I love all the appas! Carriappas, Chinappas, Utthapas! The Lady definitely has been the star of the show, cooking all the dishes, very elegant, a woman of few words but very impactful, keeping the coorgi flag flying high. I hope she sees this.

[bvneel]

SPOT ON when he says the perception of Indian food is that it’s dosa and idli in Southern India and Naan/butter chicken in the North. There is soooo much more to Indian food. 13:48

[prickingpringle]

Kodavas are renowned as a warrior clan, yet their existence remains unfamiliar to many outsiders. Despite this, they exhibit remarkable warmth and hospitality. My visit to their community was truly remarkable, and I extend my gratitude to Mark for shedding light on their culture for the outside world to appreciate.

[toniogola]

There is nothing like Indian cooking! I wish I was there. The spices are awesome!

[dipandat]

This is real culture of India. Not the dirty street food reels ppl are spreading intentionally.

[nitishnaik]

Pork is underrated in India.
I said pork delicacy of India are best in the world🤤🤤🤤

[FrancisJames-ldur]

Mark, you can't find better hosts than this couple- gracious, super cooks. What a magnificent array of dishes. 😊 I had been lucky to have stayed in Coorg for a few days and tasted pork dishes

[roxannesookhai]

The pork dish looks similar to a dish here in Trinidad called geera pork, although no vinegar is used, we also cook curried jackfruit which we call chataigne here and the mango curry which are both served together on a leaf with other vegetable curries at pujas and weddings. So some of the ancestors of Indo Trinis surely came from this area.

[veynz]

What a foodgasmic experience it must have been for you! Shelly and Subbu are such a warm couple! Ebin, of course, is as endearing as ever! Looking forward now to your video with the one and only Kripal!